Join us for our 7th Annual Mini Movement Fest!
August 1, 2026 | 📍 Arts Mission Oak Cliff
Mini Movement Fest (MMF) is a daylong celebration of dance, creativity, and community in Dallas. This year’s festival features:
👯 Four movement workshops starting at 10 AM
🎭 An evening concert featuring powerful works by the Festival Artists
🎨 Local vendors, drinks, food, and a post-show dance party
All workshops are open to participants of all experience levels, high school age and older. Whether you’re a seasoned dancer or new to movement, there’s space for you here. We’re excited to welcome Domingo Estrada Jr., Jasmine, and Stephanie as this year’s Festival Artists.
Meet the FestivalArtists
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Domingo Estrada Jr., originally from Victoria, TX, grew up studying martial arts, playing sports and dancing Ballet Folklorico with Our Lady of Sorrows. He earned his BFA in Ballet and Modern Dance from Texas Christian University. Estrada has worked with and performed works by many wonderful choreographers including Susan Douglas Roberts (wild goose chase), Christian von Howard (VON HOWARD PROJECT), Twyla Tharp's Nine Sinatra Songs, Bruce Wood (Bruce Wood Dance Dallas), and had an enduring career with Mark Morris (Mark Morris Dance Group). For the past two decades, Domingo has also taught movement and dance to various communities of all ages and abilities all over the world and is grateful to continue sharing this passion with North Texas as a current adjunct professor of dance at TCU and, especially, through Dance for PD®.
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Key’Aira Lockett is a Dallas-born choreographer, performer, filmmaker, and educator whose work lives at the intersection of embodied storytelling, immersive experience, and radical imagination. Her movement language draws from a rich foundation in ballet and modern techniques—Cunningham, Horton, Countertechnique—layered with Pilates-inspired somatics and a commitment to presence, breath, and deep spatial awareness. She holds an MFA in Dance from Hollins University, where her research explored identity politics and queer theory, and a BFA in Creative Performance from Boston Conservatory. As a performer, Key’Aira has danced with Dallas Black Dance Theatre II, Urbanity Dance, and VLA Dance, and has appeared in works presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art, a common practice, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her choreographic voice spans the stage, screen, and beyond—recognized with an Emerging Filmmaker Award for her short film Roxbury Love Story at the Roxbury International Film Festival, and expanded through immersive site-specific works such as Breathing Court, commissioned by Project Backboard and created in collaboration with visual artist Nari Ward. Her recent work with Houston Contemporary Dance Company—Inputs & Outputs / [DATA CHOREOGRAPHY] blurs the line between performance, installation, and digital inquiry, exploring themes of surveillance, memory, and Black embodiment. Currently Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Houston, Key’Aira teaches Advanced Technique and Theory, Composition II & III, and directs the Dance Ensemble. She is a former Fellow at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and a current member of the Midnight Oil Collective’s venture research cohort, where she continues to investigate the intersections of dance, data, and cultural space. At the heart of her practice is a devotion to creating movement that sees and honors the individual—work that expands awareness, invites dialogue, and offers new ways of being in the body and the world.
Workshop: Contemporary Movement w/ Key’Aira Lockett
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TY&CO is a collaborative band of artists led by Artistic Director Ty Graynor, dedicated to exploring the dualities of our living experience through classical modern and contemporary forms. Drawing from the legacies of Graham, Humphrey, and Limón, our work honors historic foundations while engaging boldly with modern themes.
Our mission is to nurture creativity and unlock our innate sovereignty through rigorous training, bold embodiment, and the creation of new work across dance, theatre, and film. TY&CO serves as an incubator for professional development, artistic risk-taking, and immersive experiences that invite both artists and audiences to reconnect with the deepest part of themselves.
We believe dance is a powerful medium for personal and collective reflection. Through performance and community engagement, we strive to make art accessible and resonant—bridging the space between art and daily life, and illuminating the invisible threads that connect us all.
Workshop: Limón-Based Modern w/ Ty Graynor
This class brings us diving, falling, and rebounding into the principles of José Limón. Through sensation and weightiness, we will discover how to stretch, expand, and align ourselves with the world around us through gesture and shape. We aim to examine and expand upon movements that occur in our everyday natural world, bringing a living, breathing dance into play—with a momentum driven by desire to branch out and transform the space we inhabit. All movement backgrounds are welcome to explore this joyous practice that brings us closer to our breath and the fleshy reality we call life.